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Americans Still In Russian Custody Joseph Tater Joseph Tater was arrested in August 2024 and sentenced to 15 days in prison for petty hooliganism.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
13 Feb. 2025 -
He had been previously arrested in November 2021 on charges of hooliganism and arrested for 10 days.—
Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports,
arkansasonline.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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In turn, episodes of fraud and misconduct in small local governments don’t always surface publicly unless criminal charges are filed – and problems short of criminality may be kept quiet.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
16 Jan. 2025
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The department has since played the role of overseer in the investigation, and reserves the right to take over again in the event of potential criminality.—
Cody Copeland,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Jan. 2025
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Most notably in 2020, the Supreme Court ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's structure of a single leader removable only for inefficiency, neglect or malfeasance is unconstitutional.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
17 Feb. 2025
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The first asserted that the bureau’s management structure, with no board and a single director who could be removed by a president only for inefficiency or malfeasance, was unconstitutional.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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By contrast, in fiscal year 2024, 51 percent of the people ICE arrested had been convicted of a crime, and an additional 21 percent had criminal charges pending against them.—
Nathaniel Rakich,
ABC News,
11 Feb. 2025
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The institute maintains a massive database of education statistics and contracts with scientists and education companies to compile and make data public about schools each year, such as information about school crime and safety and high school science course completion.—
Jodi S. Cohen,
ProPublica,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Gangsterism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gangsterism. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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